---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs"
description: "Creating Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 85"
citation: "Maryland SB 85 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rosapepe"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-10-09"
last_action: "2021-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3669f16e-354e-4b6d-8287-7e507c67be85"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0085?ys=2021RS&search=True"
source_hash: "2982ad04e10c1e174bf5a490ddb01e9c117bab82990aca99467c07ed7ada9aa5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland SB 85 (2021) — Creating Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chapter - Creating Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/Chapters_noln/CH_675_sb0085t.pdf)
2. **First - Governor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs – Established** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0085f.pdf)
3. **Third - Creating Governor's Office of Immigrant Affairs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/sb/sb0085t.pdf)

## Votes

- On Third Reading — **31–14** (pass) · upper
- On Third Reading — **100–34** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rosapepe — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-10-09** Pre-filed `introduction`
- **2021-01-13** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs and Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-22** Hearing 2/09 at 1:00 p.m. (Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs)
- **2021-03-18** Favorable with Amendments Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Favorable with Amendments { `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- **2021-03-19** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-20** Referred Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-07** Favorable Report by Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07** Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-08** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2021-05-30** Enacted under Article II, Section 17(c) of the Maryland Constitution - Chapter 675 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3669f16e-354e-4b6d-8287-7e507c67be85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).